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Posted: Mar. 28 2005,22:04 QUOTE
My very first experience with DSL today showed a problem with my LAN PC card. It is a 3com 3c589d-combo, my notebook is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 480 CDT. When I boot from CD-ROM in the normal boot mode the booting process stalls after indicating what kind of CPU it is (Mobile Intel Pentium MMX 233Mhz).

If I choose failsafe boot mode it runs properly, but as this mode skips the PCMCIA detection I don´t have network access. When I try to connect the PC card after booting failsafe, it does not recognize the LAN card (not supported).

Does anybody have an idea which driver I can use (search engines did not really help) and explain how I can install this?

THX in advance!
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Posted: Mar. 28 2005,22:47 QUOTE
How long did you wait when it stuck?

It might take a min or two to push thru the detection unfortunately

Brian
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Posted: Mar. 28 2005,23:48 QUOTE
Quote (AwPhuch @ Mar. 28 2005,17:47)
How long did you wait when it stuck?

It might take a min or two to push thru the detection unfortunately

Brian
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Ooops - maybe not long enough. I ´ll try it with more than two minutes waiting.

Pete
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Posted: Mar. 29 2005,03:18 QUOTE
If not, try this boot command:

dsl vga=normal atapicd nosound noapic noacpi acpi=off noscsi noapm nousb nofirewire noagp nomce xmodule=vesa

It is basically "failsafe" but with pcmcia support allowed.
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Posted: Mar. 30 2005,16:34 QUOTE
Yesterday I tried it with the latest version of Knoppix. It is NOT the LAN PC card, Knoppix runs fine and I get a network connection. Still, I will try it with your recommendation for DSL, because Knoppix seems to be a bit too "mighty" for my old notebook, it runs real slow with it.
Thanks!
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